Chandler Museum

A Community Museum, Reimagined

Weddle Gilmore worked extensively with the staff of the Chandler Museum in renovating and reimagining the institution’s original 3,300-square-foot Price House (on the National Register of Historic Places) and creating a new 11,000-square-foot community museum. The goal is to update and restore the 1938 residence while designing and implementing a new multi-functional facility sensitive to the institution’s budgetary requirements. In addition to new gallery space and storage areas, the new design includes a classroom for school groups and an entry court between the old and new buildings that function as a kind of “outdoor living room” where community events and visitor gatherings, both public and private, can be held.